Wow..such beautiful and healthy Eclecti. Is that the word for more than one Eclectus? LOL.
Welcome back and thank you for posting pictures of your flock. Such beauties! GIANT kudos for keeping them healthy and happy for so many years. You are a very good Eclecti parent!
I would love to know what you feed your Eclecti. (I am probably not going to stop using that word now...I apologize) I had a male Eclectus named Joaquin who unfortunately died at just a month shy of 5 years old. He had cancer. I use to feed him quite differently from my mini macaws and until the cancer was a very healthy and happy boy. His diet was mostly fresh veggies with a little bit if fruit. He liked the tart fruits my mini macaws would not touch. I remember feeding him Harrison's pellets but the majority of his diet was fresh foods.
I was heart broken when he died. Joaquin use to speak in sentences and would charm anyone who met him. I use to take him to hospice and help with the mentally ill because Joaquin had a way of helping people feel good. At home Joaquin had a bit of macaw in him and would be naughty. I loved him very much. Joaquin passed in 2005 and I still miss him.
It gives me great joy to see your beautiful flock in such obvious health and happiness. I love the pic of the ladies taking their shower. That is a very beautiful pic. Thank you for sharing them with us.
I'm so sorry to hear your Eclectus boy died. I'm not sure what the plural is but always deferred to "Eclectus Parrots".
Mine are fed a mostly fresh or cooked foods diet. In the morning, they usually eat a cooked cereal of lentils and split peas, barley, lentils, veg. pasta, rolled oats, wheat, rye, triticale, barley, almonds, date crumbles, raisins, sunflower seeds, and walnuts and whole kernel corn. In the evenings I feed a chopped salad with diff types of lettuce, cabbage, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, snap peas...or whatever else is growing in the garden or kept in the fridge. Once in awhile they get a seed mix, maybe once or twice a month a few Roudybush pellets. Sometimes I add in a little toast with a bit of peanut butter or scrambled egg as a treat.
If Ruby has laid an egg which she does a couple times a year I shave in a little cuttlebone for added calcium and offer almonds that week. And I go through phases of sprouting and then not. Which is less about them and more about me lol!
I'm always happiest to feed them something fresh from the garden since I feel it's the healthiest for them. Recently we've had some nice pomegranets at the grocery and although they make a huge mess of them, they really enjoy them.
